And yes - this business model makes absolutely no sense in the absence of outrageous advertising prices. Which is why the publishing industry is going down down down.
By the way, the magazines that can be had for less than $18 per year are actually subsidized by advertising. The true cost of printing + mailing a full length (around 100 pages / perfect binding / good paper / good printing) magazine is around $5 - 10 per issue per customer. Add in production/design/content costs, and the actual cost of a single magazine can be anywhere from $20 - 30. If you take a look at the sale prices of unsubsidized (ie magazines with no ads) - you can find that the cheaper magazines use poor quality paper, while the really glossy ones (which are usually high art / high fashion mags) costs around $30 per issue.
I think you give human kind too much credit - you think that we're so smart.
I see a lot of this kind of language "that the cells are so sophisticated that we still don't know much...."
Why do you think we're so smart? What if we're actually the dumbnuts of the Earth? Heck, we still don't know much about quantum mechanics and the physical nature of the world - why should we be able to know everything there is to know about the chemical and biological underpinnings of life?
In my opinion, it'll take at least another couple billions of years before any sentient being on Earth will come to understand how the cellular machinery came to be. When it took a few billion years to evolve, don't you think it would take at least that long to understand? When you get to 2 or 3 billion years old, then you deserve to ask that question - Why don't we get it yet?. Until then, please understand that we don't know jack about the real nature of how biological organisms are put together, and all we can do is continue to experiment, continue to learn.
The article states that Intel is one of the investors of Intellectual Ventures. The article also says that one of the lawsuits was filed against McAfee, which Intel recently bought. So in this case, Intel is hiring someone else to sue itself - it would be much easier to hold an employee venting day if that's all they wanted to do.
I was wondering if it is acceptable to the TSA for me to request a private room, and strip naked to let them do a visual only examination to prove that I'm not carrying anything dangerous. They can look as closely as they want, as long as they don't touch me.
I have no concerns about privacy, but I do have a problem with xrays and a person feeling me up.
But I have no problems about getting naked. Is that an acceptable for the TSA? I will try it next time I go through an airport.
Yes, the reasons behind the score differences need to be evaluate. What if one teacher turned a blind eye to cheating, while the other teacher strictly enforced the no cheating rules? On standardized testing, the cheaters win. Anyone who says cheating is not a problem in primary / secondary school has no idea how kids actually are these days. Whatever the background, whatever family situation and conditions, cheating is something that happens. It's up to the teachers to bring it to the students' and their parents' attentions, and escalate it when necessary when students are caught cheating, and for some teachers, that's a really hard thing to do.
In any human, mitochondria ONLY comes from the mother. The mitochondria in the sperm are clustered at the base of the flagella and are used to provide energy for swimming. After insemination, the father's mitochondria are "discarded", left outside of the egg. There is also no worry that the father's mitochondria is "too different". So in current human biology, the mother's mitochondria is extremely important, as any defects/dna damage will be inherited by the offspring.
The father's mitochondria decides how energetic the sperm are when competing to fertilize the egg. The mother's mitochondria are carried on in the offspring.
Perhaps the genetic engineers will one day find out how to implant the father's mitochondria back into the developing egg.
If you read the article, the Apache folks were compromised before the Atlassian breach - and in the article, it appears Apache contacted Atlassian regarding the xss compromise which was used 2 days later directly on atlassian itself.
This is wrong. the Ports system is based on CVS, so in essence, you can go back version by version, back to the beginning, and select version numbers of the software to install at will, without having to depend on precompile binaries.
You use the supfile to select the port version you need
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html
Gives you all the branch tags that you can check out via historical cvs.
But Alter Relationship obviously didn't read the handbook, and started complaining without even reading the man pages.
I believe the real idea is that if you spent $1 billion in helping the OSCAR project along, you would have something useable by now. Even though OSCAR is only, as you say, a part of a larger solution, it still doesn't excuse the massive useless waste of space and money that eHealth Ontario represents.
If you take $1 billion dollars, and contribute it to Linux development, what would do you think would come out of it? Ask the same question for OSCAR, and you can start to see the real questions at hand.
I was in the non-profit space about a year ago, and we were thinking of trying out "Metrix" http://metrix.fcny.org/index.html . Developed by/for the Fund for the City of New York, it's a contact management / funding/donor tracking system built on top of MS Access, with integration into excel and word (mail merges). Since it builds on top of MS Office suite (ie word, outlook, excel, access, along with the free ms sql product), which most non-profits need to get licenses for anyways, it's a good fit if you're already on the Microsoft path.
I'd like to see something like Metrix built on top of Openoffice if there is such a thing.
The post on the google blog had a reply from the person who did Gold (see the link to Gold a few posts back) had this to say:
Ian Lance Taylor said...
ralph: The main difference in gold is that it was designed from the ground up to work for ELF. The GNU linker was designed to work for a.out and COFF.
ELF conceptually requires three passes over the object files, a.out and COFF require two. A version of the third pass was hacked into the GNU linker by using a backpatch system on the symbol table, in which the GNU linker makes some decisions when it first reads the object file, and then undoes those decisions when appropriate after seeing all the objects. The backpatching causes the GNU linker to traverse the symbol table multiple times; this is very expensive in a large link. Reducing the number of symbol table traversals is probably the most significant change.
A couple of smaller but significant changes can be found on my blog:
They don't use git because FreeBSD development has traditionally been "centralized". They use a model where patches are fed to a group of core developers with "commit permission" to the tree, and all source changes are vetted and fed through that funnel. Subversion's centralized source control methodology works well with the FreeBSD development process, and the decentralized aspects of git is not needed.
However, of course, there is still some distributed coding going on at the edges, but they tend to be peripheral and experimental. The developers working on these experimental branches can choose to use whatever source control system they wish. Many FreeBSD developers prefer perforce for their experimental work, but they can use git or mercurial if they wish.
I believe back then there was a lot of negotiation over the proper handling of nuclear materials. START I and START II all was negotiated back in the cold war era. Even though the US and USSR were in a "cold war", cooler scientific minds still prevailed, and led to the "detente" over the mutual agreement to decommission and reduce / reuse / recycle nuclear materials.
there is no free lunch. these manufacturers are seeing the "gold mine" open source software as a way to do less work. Well, you've got to comply with the terms of the license if you distribute it. no 2 ways about it.
Also to clarify, Yahoo's supported open source by hiring a whole slew of open source developers. One of the heavy weights is Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of php.
Before you stop reading past the 1st few paragraphs, also from the same article
Freeman, who showed the AP the documents from Sandia and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, said he made a conscious effort to avoid information labeled classified but still managed to accidentally download files from Sandia with "top secret" classifications, forcing him to wipe his computer hard drive clean and notify authorities.
So Top Secret and Classified documents were actually found, forcing the investigator to give himself up to the FBI.
If you read the post, Linus's opinion is that all cpus have errata, and from the point of view of Linux, these errata don't impact linux that much because they've already designed their internal systems to deal with contingencies like these, because Linus believes erratas are just going to go up as we make more cpu's.
Theo, on the other hand, is coming at it from a "black-hat" point of view. Given the processor, he's thinking how people can compromise the cpu on a hardware level.
They have differing POV's, and it's not really "who's right", but "who's priorities do you align yourself with."
In normal use, as the core 2 has already been proved in general use for about a year already, these errata are easy to shrug off. If it crashes, just reboot it. If it corrupts your data, just get it from backup.
However, if you're using it in a military / hard crypto setting, there might be concerns.
but seriously, what does age have anything to do with the suitability of the os? Linux has used ext2fs for a long time, and only in the last 4 or 5 years migrated to ext3fs.
Certain filesystems have been around forever, gaining incremental improvements with the years.
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And yes - this business model makes absolutely no sense in the absence of outrageous advertising prices. Which is why the publishing industry is going down down down.
By the way, the magazines that can be had for less than $18 per year are actually subsidized by advertising. The true cost of printing + mailing a full length (around 100 pages / perfect binding / good paper / good printing) magazine is around $5 - 10 per issue per customer. Add in production/design/content costs, and the actual cost of a single magazine can be anywhere from $20 - 30. If you take a look at the sale prices of unsubsidized (ie magazines with no ads) - you can find that the cheaper magazines use poor quality paper, while the really glossy ones (which are usually high art / high fashion mags) costs around $30 per issue.
Hope this clears up some things.
I think you give human kind too much credit - you think that we're so smart.
I see a lot of this kind of language "that the cells are so sophisticated that we still don't know much ...."
Why do you think we're so smart? What if we're actually the dumbnuts of the Earth? Heck, we still don't know much about quantum mechanics and the physical nature of the world - why should we be able to know everything there is to know about the chemical and biological underpinnings of life?
In my opinion, it'll take at least another couple billions of years before any sentient being on Earth will come to understand how the cellular machinery came to be. When it took a few billion years to evolve, don't you think it would take at least that long to understand? When you get to 2 or 3 billion years old, then you deserve to ask that question - Why don't we get it yet?. Until then, please understand that we don't know jack about the real nature of how biological organisms are put together, and all we can do is continue to experiment, continue to learn.
The article states that Intel is one of the investors of Intellectual Ventures. The article also says that one of the lawsuits was filed against McAfee, which Intel recently bought. So in this case, Intel is hiring someone else to sue itself - it would be much easier to hold an employee venting day if that's all they wanted to do.
I was wondering if it is acceptable to the TSA for me to request a private room, and strip naked to let them do a visual only examination to prove that I'm not carrying anything dangerous. They can look as closely as they want, as long as they don't touch me.
I have no concerns about privacy, but I do have a problem with xrays and a person feeling me up.
But I have no problems about getting naked. Is that an acceptable for the TSA? I will try it next time I go through an airport.
Yes, the reasons behind the score differences need to be evaluate. What if one teacher turned a blind eye to cheating, while the other teacher strictly enforced the no cheating rules? On standardized testing, the cheaters win. Anyone who says cheating is not a problem in primary / secondary school has no idea how kids actually are these days. Whatever the background, whatever family situation and conditions, cheating is something that happens. It's up to the teachers to bring it to the students' and their parents' attentions, and escalate it when necessary when students are caught cheating, and for some teachers, that's a really hard thing to do.
Choi + Shine is not an Icelandic company! I wonder where the heck the submitter got that. Their website puts their address at
In any human, mitochondria ONLY comes from the mother. The mitochondria in the sperm are clustered at the base of the flagella and are used to provide energy for swimming. After insemination, the father's mitochondria are "discarded", left outside of the egg. There is also no worry that the father's mitochondria is "too different". So in current human biology, the mother's mitochondria is extremely important, as any defects/dna damage will be inherited by the offspring.
The father's mitochondria decides how energetic the sperm are when competing to fertilize the egg. The mother's mitochondria are carried on in the offspring.
Perhaps the genetic engineers will one day find out how to implant the father's mitochondria back into the developing egg.
If you read the article, the Apache folks were compromised before the Atlassian breach - and in the article, it appears Apache contacted Atlassian regarding the xss compromise which was used 2 days later directly on atlassian itself.
This is wrong. the Ports system is based on CVS, so in essence, you can go back version by version, back to the beginning, and select version numbers of the software to install at will, without having to depend on precompile binaries. You use the supfile to select the port version you need http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Gives you all the branch tags that you can check out via historical cvs. But Alter Relationship obviously didn't read the handbook, and started complaining without even reading the man pages.
It's NOT testing freebsd. the article tests the Debian world running with FreeBSD
I believe the real idea is that if you spent $1 billion in helping the OSCAR project along, you would have something useable by now. Even though OSCAR is only, as you say, a part of a larger solution, it still doesn't excuse the massive useless waste of space and money that eHealth Ontario represents.
If you take $1 billion dollars, and contribute it to Linux development, what would do you think would come out of it? Ask the same question for OSCAR, and you can start to see the real questions at hand.
I was in the non-profit space about a year ago, and we were thinking of trying out "Metrix" http://metrix.fcny.org/index.html . Developed by/for the Fund for the City of New York, it's a contact management / funding/donor tracking system built on top of MS Access, with integration into excel and word (mail merges). Since it builds on top of MS Office suite (ie word, outlook, excel, access, along with the free ms sql product), which most non-profits need to get licenses for anyways, it's a good fit if you're already on the Microsoft path.
I'd like to see something like Metrix built on top of Openoffice if there is such a thing.
This is absolutely true. Ask a native speaker, always.
Imagine future explorers digging up uranium rods, and treating it like we treat crude oil today!
What an american-centric viewpoint. Haven't you thought of how making products in china causes the same "tons of coal and limestone" to be consumed?
The post on the google blog had a reply from the person who did Gold (see the link to Gold a few posts back) had this to say:
Ian Lance Taylor said...
ralph: The main difference in gold is that it was designed from the ground up to work for ELF. The GNU linker was designed to work for a.out and COFF.
ELF conceptually requires three passes over the object files, a.out and COFF require two. A version of the third pass was hacked into the GNU linker by using a backpatch system on the symbol table, in which the GNU linker makes some decisions when it first reads the object file, and then undoes those decisions when appropriate after seeing all the objects. The backpatching causes the GNU linker to traverse the symbol table multiple times; this is very expensive in a large link. Reducing the number of symbol table traversals is probably the most significant change.
A couple of smaller but significant changes can be found on my blog:
Multi-threading.
C++ templates avoid byte swapping.
April 7, 2008 9:03 AM
They don't use git because FreeBSD development has traditionally been "centralized". They use a model where patches are fed to a group of core developers with "commit permission" to the tree, and all source changes are vetted and fed through that funnel. Subversion's centralized source control methodology works well with the FreeBSD development process, and the decentralized aspects of git is not needed.
However, of course, there is still some distributed coding going on at the edges, but they tend to be peripheral and experimental. The developers working on these experimental branches can choose to use whatever source control system they wish. Many FreeBSD developers prefer perforce for their experimental work, but they can use git or mercurial if they wish.
just another perspective... http://www.kentaurus.com/troopers.htm
I believe back then there was a lot of negotiation over the proper handling of nuclear materials. START I and START II all was negotiated back in the cold war era. Even though the US and USSR were in a "cold war", cooler scientific minds still prevailed, and led to the "detente" over the mutual agreement to decommission and reduce / reuse / recycle nuclear materials.
there is no free lunch. these manufacturers are seeing the "gold mine" open source software as a way to do less work. Well, you've got to comply with the terms of the license if you distribute it. no 2 ways about it.
Also to clarify, Yahoo's supported open source by hiring a whole slew of open source developers. One of the heavy weights is Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of php.
So Top Secret and Classified documents were actually found, forcing the investigator to give himself up to the FBI.
I think they are coming from different angles.
If you read the post, Linus's opinion is that all cpus have errata, and from the point of view of Linux, these errata don't impact linux that much because they've already designed their internal systems to deal with contingencies like these, because Linus believes erratas are just going to go up as we make more cpu's.
Theo, on the other hand, is coming at it from a "black-hat" point of view. Given the processor, he's thinking how people can compromise the cpu on a hardware level.
They have differing POV's, and it's not really "who's right", but "who's priorities do you align yourself with."
In normal use, as the core 2 has already been proved in general use for about a year already, these errata are easy to shrug off. If it crashes, just reboot it. If it corrupts your data, just get it from backup.
However, if you're using it in a military / hard crypto setting, there might be concerns.
but seriously, what does age have anything to do with the suitability of the os? Linux has used ext2fs for a long time, and only in the last 4 or 5 years migrated to ext3fs.
Certain filesystems have been around forever, gaining incremental improvements with the years.